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Rameau Orchestral Suites, Volume 2

This is the second in a two-volume anthology of orchestral suites by Rameau, played by Capella Savaria under the direction...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1997

Turnage Fractured Lines; Silent Cities

With Mark-Anthony Turnage now associate composer of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin working for Chandos, this cornucopia of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003

Liszt Tasso. Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony

After listening to conducting like this, you might ask why the Romanian Silvestri, during his final decade in France and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

Pfitzner Orchestral Works

Reviewing an earlier issue in the CPO Pfitzner series (5/91) I noted ''the problematic nature'' of his orchestral music. This...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

The Busch Quartet play Brahms and Schumann

The 1942 Schumann recording is, for British collectors at least, a far rarer bird than the Brahms: it never enjoyed...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets Nos 1 and 2

If this initial instalment is anything to go by, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s ambitious series of 10 Naxos Quartets is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004

Boulez Domaines

More than a quarter of a century on from its premiere, Pli selon pli continues variously to perplex, tantalize and...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Brahms: Piano Works

Michel Dalberto, winner of the 1978 Leeds Piano Competition, has been a very infrequent visitor to the recording studios. He...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1988

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole; Sarasate Carmen Fantasie

A new recording of the Lalo Symphonie espagnole needs to be special if it is to find a place in...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Liszt: Works for piano and orchestra

Quite apart from the high quality of the performances, this is to be welcomed because we have no locally available...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

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